Dance

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Hot House

Richard Chappell and collaborators

Richard Chappell Dance

Dance City, Newcastle

24 March 2023

Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stabat Mater

On the And: Honouring the Legacy of Sir Robert Cohan CBE

Choreography Robert Cohan, staging Richard Alston, Darshan Singh Bhuller, Yol...

The Place Theatre

24–25 March 2023

The Great Gatsby

David Nixon, music by Richard Roger Bennett

Northern Ballet

Sheffield Lyceum Theatre

21–25 March 2023

Swan Lake

Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; choreography by Lev Ivanov, Marius Petipa ...

Birmingham Royal Ballet

The Lyric, Theatre Royal Plymouth

15–18 March 2023

Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

Script by Steven Knight, choreography by Benoit Swan Pouffer

Rambert Dance and Birmingham Hippodrome

The Lowry, Salford

14–18 March 2023

The Rite of Spring

Seeta Patel

Seeta Patel Dance

Sadler's Wells

13–14 March 2023

Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends

Choreography Tiler Peck, Alonzo King, Michelle Dorrance, Jillian Meyers, Will...

Sadler's Wells

9–11 March 2023

Then or Now: Alexander Fadayiro, Isabela Coracy, Mthuthuzeli November, José Alves, Sayaka Ichikawa, Taraja Hudson & Helga Paris-Morales

Ballet Black: Pioneers

Mthuthuzeli November, William Tuckett

Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black

Barbican Centre

9–12 March 2023

Dominique Larose (Daisy) and Joseph Taylor (Gatsby)

The Great Gatsby

Choreography by David Nixon, based on the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald

Northern Ballet

Leeds Grand Theatre

8–18 March 2023

Coppélia

Choreographed by Morgann Runacre-Temple and Jessica Wright, music Leo Delibes...

Scottish Ballet

Sadler’s Wells

2–5 March 2023

Swan Lake

Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Choreography by Lev Ivanov, Marius Petipa ...

Birmingham Royal Ballet

The Lowry, Salford

2–4 March 2023

Dance Me – Music by Leonard Cohen

Choreography Ihsan Rustem, Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, music L...

Ballets Jazz Montréal

Sadler's Wells

7–14 February 2023

The company with Rimbaud Patron as the Ringmaster

The Snow Queen

Story Hans Christian Andersen, music Rimsky-Korsakov, choreography Christophe...

Scottish Ballet

Newcastle Theatre Royal

1–4 February 2023

Wasteland

Gary Clarke with Lou Cope (Dramaturg)

Gary Clarke Company

Contact, Manchester

1–3 February 2023

how did we get here?

Choreography by Jules Cunningham

Julie Cunningham & Company

Sadler's Wells

19–29 January 2023

Swan Lake

Choreography Derek Deane after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with additional c...

English National Ballet

London Coliseum

12–22 January 2023

The Nutcracker

Score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, story by Marius Petipa

Raymond Gubbay and Varna International Ballet

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

2–3 January 2023

News

DanceWest Fest in Hammersmith and Kingston

29 March 2023

DanceWest Fest, formerly Ignition Dance Festival, returns this spring to the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and Rose Theatre, Kingston.

LCB Snow White at the Peacock

29 March 2023

London Children's Ballet will present Snow White with a cast of 50 dancers aged 9–16 at Peacock Theatre.

Seeking young dancers of future

26 March 2023

The Lowry and its Centre for Advanced Training hold their annual recruitment drive for young dancers on June 11.

World of dance at The Lowry

21 March 2023

Regional audiences have the chance to see some of the world’s best international dance thanks to The Lowry’s spring/summer season.

“Accomplished dancer and warm-hearted person”: Brandon Lawrence

Lawrence leaves Birmingham Royal Ballet for Zürich

17 March 2023

Principal dancer Brandon Lawrence is to leave Birmingham Royal Ballet to take up a similar role with Ballett Zürich.

JV2 at Sadlers Wells and on tour

16 March 2023

This spring, dancers from JV2, Ashford-based Jasmin Vardimon Company’s professional development programme, will showcase their work with a short tour.

The Place honours Sir Robert Cohan

16 March 2023

Two performances at The Place will honour the legacy of Sir Robert Cohan, the founding father of UK modern dance, on 24 & 25 March.

Maliphant's Vortex at Sadler's Wells

15 March 2023

Russell Maliphant Dance Company's Vortex is at Sadler's Wells then tours to Canterbury, Newcastle, Colchester, Lancaster, Huddersfield and Chester.

Black Hole: Trilogy and Triathlon by TRIBE

Performers from abroad dance at Leicester festival

10 March 2023

Uncovering the Dance Within: Origins and Authenticity is the theme for 2023’s Let’s Dance International Frontiers, an annual festival in Leicester.

Internationals to appear in hip-hop festival

5 March 2023

An international line-up will take part in the 2023 Breakin’ Convention hip-hop festival from Sadler’s Wells Theatre to Birmingham Hippodrome.

Opera & Dance combine in Leeds

4 March 2023

Opera North and Phoenix Dance Theatre join forces with Jazzart Dance Theatre and Cape Town Opera to present Mozart’s Requiem.

Seaside storm of hip hop

26 February 2023

Jonzi D’s celebration of hip hop culture, Breakin’ Convention, storms back to Blackpool Grand Theatre.

Story Detectives UK library tour

16 February 2023

The Story Detectives, from dance company Made by Katie Green, tours the UK with free performances at libraries across the country.

McGregor appointed Elmhurst President

16 February 2023

Wayne McGregor becomes President of Elmhurst Ballet School on Elmhurst's 100th birthday year and they collaborate on a fifth project.

Making Sacrifice in Salford

13 February 2023

South African choreographer Dada Masilo brings her latest work The Sacrifice to The Lowry.

Tin Man dances into Blackpool

13 February 2023

Joss Arnott’s Tin Man is just part of a contemporary dance season at Blackpool Grand.

Maiya Leeke, Elisabeth Mulenga, BLUE MAKWANA & Tough Boys Dance Collective

Sadler’s Wells nurtures new dancers and choreographers

12 February 2023

Sadler’s Wells has announced four new dance artists for its artist development programmes plus its new NYDC intake.

Aisha Webber, Amanda de Souza and Paris Crossley in Born to Exist

ROH celebrates International Women’s Day

12 February 2023

The Royal Opera House will celebrate International Women’s Day 2023 with a performance of Joseph Toonga's Born to Exist—The Women I Know.

Celebrating Laura Morera's 25 years with The Royal Ballet 2021

Royal Ballet Principal Morera retires

12 February 2023

Laura Morera will retire as a Principal dancer of the Royal Ballet at the end of the season after 27 years.

Birmingham Royal Ballet paranoid over Black Sabbath

8 February 2023

Birmingham rock heavyweights Black Sabbath are to become ballet stars in the BRB world première of Black Sabbath—The Ballet.

Phoenix's double celebration

4 February 2023

In a double-launch event, Phoenix Dance Theatre’s headquarters in Leeds, guests were treated to the first look at two special commemorative projects.

Derby dance centre unveils new season

20 January 2023

East Midlands dance organisation Déda has revealed its spring and summer 2023 season including “circus, dance and fairy tales".

BRB2 (left to right): Mason King, Jack Easton, Mailene Katoch, BRB director Carlos Acosta, Frieda Kaden and Oscar Kempsey-Fagg

BRB develops young ballet company

19 January 2023

Birmingham Royal Ballet has set up a new company, BRB2, to seek out ”some of the best young ballet graduates” to join a two-year performance programme.

Hot House première in Newcastle

18 January 2023

Richard Chappell Dance premières its new creation Hot House at Dance City, Newcastle.

Swan Lake in Salford

10 January 2023

Ballet’s greatest love story returns to The Lowry, Salford.

The Birmingham Royal Ballet production of Swan Lake

Birmingham Royal Ballet to tour Swan Lake

10 January 2023

“Two of the world’s greatest dancers” are to join Birmingham Royal Ballet for part of its tour of Sir Peter Wright and Galina Samsova’s Swan Lake.

Barclays Dance Pass to Bourne R&J

8 January 2023

Sadler’s Wells’ Barclays Dance Pass will offer 1,000 £10 tickets for Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet.

ROH to stream new ballet and opera

4 January 2023

Royal Opera House Stream will add The Royal Ballet's The Cellist, Romeo and Juliet and Sylvia and The Royal Opera's La traviata, Fidelio and Madama Butterfly.